Regents to advise Trump on how to let ‘dreamers’ remain in country

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Arizona regents voted today to tell President-elect Trump how he can legally allow “dreamers” to remain in this country without reaching the whole hot-button question of amnesty.

The letter makes the legal argument that those who were brought to this country illegally as children “lacked meaningful capacity to have violated our immigration laws.”

“Therefore, the case for deportation would be legally weak,” the letter reads.

But regent Jay Heiler, who crafted the letter the board unanimously approved, made it clear he believes that any relief has to come from Congress. He contends President Obama acted illegally in 2012 in creating the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

The issue for the board is more than academic. It goes to the question of how much universities — and community colleges for that matter — have to charge students.

Read more at AZ Capitol Times

Corrie O'Connor